| From the watering down of the Kyoto protocol to biopiracy and the patenting of life, the environment has been left in the hands of corporations. |
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| Patenting in general increased over this period, and specifically, patenting anchored in existing firm knowledge also increased. |
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| Yet surely we should not be patenting whole life forms, such as transgenic mice or cotton plants? |
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| Not content with patenting the test, the company moved quickly to ringfence the genes themselves. |
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| This is mainly due to the patenting system where a company is given sole ownership of some intellectual property. |
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| That is an extreme distaste for the patenting system as it is applied throughout the world. |
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| But it sounds like Rifkin originally filed this patent in order to challenge the idea of patenting living materials. |
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| Researchers are often unfamiliar with intellectual property issues and chafe at patenting hurdles. |
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| In this country and in Europe you can go quite a long way towards patenting a medical treatment. |
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| Sometimes, a company can protect its differentiation strategy by patenting its products. |
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| Purified elements from the Periodic Table would be prime candidates for patenting. |
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| The EFC and CCC will be arguing that patenting of mammals commodifies and objectifies life. |
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| This means that decision makers are faced with the difficult question of whether the future benefits of patenting will exceed the future costs. |
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| It is also nonsense and self-deluding to maintain that the directive on patenting would prohibit this. |
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| He has been patenting a pearl cultivation method involving the manual insertion of a small core into the soft flesh of a pearl oyster. |
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| When he meets the boss, it is to report on the group's patenting and licensing business, an area where engineers and lawyers work hand in glove. |
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| At that stage an idea is not ready for patenting yet, but there's the chance that it will 'sprout wings': that other people will get wind of it. |
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| A major problem associated with patents is biopiracy-the pirating and patenting of indigenous knowledge and biodiversity. |
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| Yet, some misconstrue Emerson's dictum and believe that patenting an invention will cause the world to beat a path to their door. |
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| The giant drug companies and bioscience companies will benefit from the profits to be gained from patenting life forms. |
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| For that reason, patenting, which is de facto the privatization of the living, is a totally unjustifiable spoliation. |
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| The poverty implications of TRIPs requirements for life form patenting are numerous. |
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| In fact, those opposed to paragraph 2 of the draft Resolution considered that it left open the possibility of double patenting. |
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| Interestingly, he used his comments to discuss things like education reform and emerging-market growth but not, until asked about it, patenting. |
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| He fell out with the NIH, however, over the issue of patenting DNA sequences called expressed sequence tags. |
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| We also discussed the Fiori report in very wide and detailed terms, and it was made very clear that we do not want any patenting of human genes. |
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| Without a cost-efficient means of patenting intellectual property rights, what incentive is there for our scientists? |
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| Legal enforcement of ownership by way of patenting is in our minds not a necessary condition. |
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| Some universities in Canada have already developed research niches in terms of disclosures and patenting. |
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| As regards defensive patenting, it is an inherent feature of a patent system to grant exclusive rights. |
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| Example entry: MEPs voted in favour of a legislative resolution on the patenting of computer implemented inventions on 24 September. |
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| This patent demonstrates the urgent need for a general legal ban on the patenting of genes, live organisms and seeds. |
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| As for the impact of patenting higher life forms, forum participants stressed once again the importance of respecting human dignity. |
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| Let us not forget that there is a lot of money to be made by patenting cloning processes or specific types of stem cells. |
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| Long-term, the USA would be happy to see the clause allowing animals and plants to be exempted from patenting deleted. |
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| Our social and political decisions regarding trade and patenting will follow. |
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| Further, many believe that patenting genes is more about discovery than invention, and is therefore privatising what should remain in the public commons. |
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| The researchers, who are patenting their chicken feed, say they'll have the super-healthy eggs in stores as soon as they sign up with a suitable farm. |
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| Many opponents of patenting on lifeforms see this as an inappropriate extension of private ownership rights to resources that should be or were previously held in common. |
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| Thanks to these new internal regulations, the university and the researcher have become equal partners, sharing the costs involved with patenting and licensing new products, as well as any profits. |
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| Therefore, a new approach to the protection of these assets has been implemented, which may include patenting certain technologies when appropriate. |
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| The loss of genetic resources, the inability of governments to manage food supplies and reserves, and the patenting of life forms, threaten the ability of food-producing communities to sustain themselves. |
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| The article was to be amended to impose stronger patenting obligations. |
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| While the appellate court was not prepared to preclude the possibility that obviousnesstype double patenting could be applied in circumstances involving multiple inventors, the court had difficulty envisioning such a case. |
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| The preliminary report also found evidence that originator companies also practice defensive patenting strategies to fence off competition from other originator companies. |
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| Many firms preserve their intellectual property as trade secrets, rather than making it public by patenting it, and there is no reason why internet dating sites should not be among them. |
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| Those for whom the common position did not go far enough linked up with those who feared that, with the amendments proposed, the ban on the patenting of software would carry the day. |
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| As development progressed, technology transfer professionals from DND, the RCMP and the National Research Council Canada focused on patenting various components and combining the two elements into one industrial package. |
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| This also applies to aid for feasibility studies and aid to cover patenting costs as well as to individual aid which does not exceed certain ceilings. |
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| They are covered through patenting, not copyrighting. |
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| We know that the framework set out for patenting biotechnological inventions is a crucial platform for developing new types of therapy, which, for a large number of ill people, represent an unhoped-for opportunity. |
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| This can happen because the owner knowingly makes the knowledge available to others by putting it in the public domain, such as by patenting the knowledge or by making the knowledge freely available. |
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| In the United States, the granting in earlier times of patents of questionable validity has contributed to a debate around the patenting of business methods. |
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| This model law suggests a form of protection which differs from the intellectual property rights' system, in that it is less exclusive and opposes patenting for all life forms. |
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| The Supreme Court ruled narrowly against Novartis, but opponents of patenting drugs claimed it as a major victory. |
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| It starts innocently enough with the patenting of a new machine that extracts oxygen from the air, cleans, depollutes and depollenizes it, then stores if for future use. |
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| His chief claim to fame, industrially speaking, was in patenting the alloy known as Muntz Metal, which was used for the protective sheathing of ships' hulls. |
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| Indigenous peoples and local communities have sought to prevent the patenting of traditional knowledge and resources where they have not given express consent. |
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